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This site is for mothers of kids in the U.S. Navy and for Moms who have questions about Navy life for their kids.

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FOLLOW THESE STEPS TO GET STARTED:

Choose your Username. For the privacy and safety of you and/or your sailor, NO LAST NAMES ARE ALLOWED, even if your last name differs from that of your sailor (please make sure your URL address does not include your last name either). Also, please do not include your email address in your user name. Go to "Settings" above to set your Username. While there, complete your Profile so you can post and share photos and videos of your Sailor and share stories with other moms!

Make sure to read our Community Guidelines and this Navy Operations Security (OPSEC) checklist - loose lips sink ships!

Join groups! Browse for groups for your PIR date, your sailor's occupational specialty, "A" school, assigned ship, homeport city, your own city or state, and a myriad of other interests. Jump in and introduce yourself! Start making friends that can last a lifetime.

Link to Navy Speak - Navy Terms & Acronyms: Navy Speak

All Hands Magazine's full length documentary "Making a Sailor": This video follows four recruits through Boot Camp in the spring of 2018 who were assigned to DIV 229, an integrated division, which had PIR on 05/25/2018.

Boot Camp: Making a Sailor (Full Length Documentary - 2018)

Boot Camp: Behind the Scenes at RTC

...and visit Navy.com - America's Navy and Navy.mil also Navy Live - The Official Blog of the Navy to learn more.

OPSEC - Navy Operations Security

Always keep Navy Operations Security in mind. In the Navy, it's essential to remember that "loose lips sink ships." OPSEC is everyone's responsibility.

DON'T post critical information including future destinations or ports of call; future operations, exercises or missions; deployment or homecoming dates.

DO be smart, use your head, always think OPSEC when using texts, email, phone, and social media, and watch this video: "Importance of Navy OPSEC."

Follow this link for OPSEC Guidelines:

OPSEC GUIDELINES

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**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.

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RTC Graduation

RESUMING LIVE PIR - 8/13/2021

Please note! Changes to this guide happened in October 2017. Tickets are now issued for all guests, and all guests must have a ticket to enter base. A separate parking pass is no longer needed to drive on to base for parking.

Please see changes to attending PIR in the PAGES column. The PAGES are located under the member icons on the right side.

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Can someone help me undertand how this posting, replies, etc. works.

I am new to this type of site. I have never had a facebook page or myspace page. I posted a blog and got replies. Not sure how to continue to follow the people I contacted who have children that arrived at bootcamp on the same day as mine. It seems like this could be a endless trail, and my husband is already questioning the time I am spending on here. I am guessing but not sure that I can continue to check their pages. Because of the vastness of this site and the limited time I have due to work and/or other family members I am not sure how to not get overwhelmed. I guess I am just feeling overwhelmed and frustrated period. I am sure there are plenty of people out there who feel the same. I want to make sure I get letters out as soon as possible to my son as all of his DEP buddies who went before him told him to make sure his family writes. I do plan to contact his recruiter on Monday. Anyway, any help on how to use this site would be appreciated. Thanks!

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Comment by mardee5 on February 21, 2010 at 4:34pm: How? When? do I find his PIR date. Does it come in what I now think of as "The Letter"?

Comment by mardee5 on February 21, 2010 at 5:52pm: Thank you all so much. Tears stopped and figuring it out. My husband thanks you too, he thinks I have lost my mind.

Comment by BunkerQB on February 21, 2010 at 8:14pm: I posted this for a Leaving for February Bootcamp families. Hope it helps. You have to learn by trial and error. No way to get around it.
Hello, everyone. Please don't forget to join a N4M group that is based geographically near where you live. Typically, the groups have meet and greets. There is nothing like talking face-to-face to another person with a loved one in the Navy. In the SF Bay Area group, some of us will chit-chat on the phone, especially if someone is having a hard time. Stay positive, stay connected.
ANOTHER SUGGESTION: If you haven't, join the New Moms Stop Here - we have walked many moms through from the start to PIR. There are group for wives and girlfriends. Make sure you join a number of groups because some groups tend to be very emotional - you'll need some level headed advice from time to time.
A LEAVING FOR BOOTCAMP IN FEB group: Here is the link to the Leaving for Bootcamp in Feb. You should join s similar group for your son.
Once you have a PIR date, there should be a group for that specifically. If there isn't one, any of you can start one. It's not rocky science but some computer knowledge is useful.
ABOUT THIS SITE.
1. This is a social network, information is public. Be careful, use your common sense in what you write. See the little "x" by any comment you have made on a discussion, blog, any person's page including yours - if you don't want the comment there any longer, just click on this "x".
2. Get tin the habit of checking the pages for all your groups, you status box (that is the little box on the upper right hand corner with the words (INBOX, ALERT, FRIENDS and SETTINGS) to check if you have any messages or friend requests. It's important to check YOUR OWN PERSONAL PAGE - click on "My Page" on above menubar. If you don't check it, you'll never know if someone has left a message for you. If you get an invitation to join a group, you'll see it right underneath the status box.
3. WHAT TO DO IF YOU ARE GETTING INUNDATED WITH NOTIFICATIONS? You can set general email (to your regular email system) notifications under SETTINGS. You can also click on "Follow" or "Stop Following" just under the comment box. Remember when you get a email notification about a private message, part of that message will show up on the notification. You can NOT reply to the email via your regular email notification. You have to log on to N4M, click on your INBOX, click on the message, then reply. If need more info on this stuff, go to "How to do stuff on N4M" under FORUM - you'll find 3 relevant discussions that I have written with more information.
Here are some other links with useful info on how to navigate this site:
http://www.navyformoms.com/forum/topics/private-messaging-and-posti...
http://www.navyformoms.com/forum/topics/your-profile-settings-how-to-1

PLEASE THANK YOUR SAILOR TO BE FOR HIS COMMITMENT TO SERVE OUR COUNTRY.
BunkerBee.